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Press Release: Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 64 signatures

Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 64 signatures

Montreal, 28 September 2011 – Cape Verde, Mozambique, Slovenia and Togo are the latest signatories to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Press Release: Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 60 signatures

Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 60 signatures

Montreal, 26 September 2011 – On the margins of the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, six more countries—Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Grenada, Madagascar, Niger and Serbia—have become the latest signatories to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resourc ...

Press Release: Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 54 signatures after seven months

Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 54 signatures after seven months

Montreal, 20 September 2011 – At a signing ceremony organized in New York on 20 September at the margins of the high-level event on desertification of the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, 12 more countries signed the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and t ...

Invitation to a Capacity-building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing, 29-30 October 2011, Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/77503 (2011-170)
To: CBD Focal Points, ICNP Focal Points and indigenous and local community organizations, copy to: Mr. Shakeel Bhatti, Secretary of the ITPGRFA

I am pleased to inform you that a Capacity-building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing will be held on 29-30 October 2011, in Montreal, Canada, back to back with the Seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions (WG-8(j)-7).

Communiqué: Bangladesh becomes the forty-second signatory to the Nagoya Protocol

Bangladesh becomes the forty-second signatory to the Nagoya Protocol

Montreal, 8 September 2011 – On 6 September 2011, Bangladesh became the forty-second Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biolo ...

Geneva Call for Urgent Action on the Implementation of the Successful Nagoya Outcomes

Montreal, 7 September 2011. On Saturday, 3 September 2011, the past, present and future Presidents of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed and signed, at their annual high-level meeting at Chateau Bossey, Switzerland, the “Geneva Call for Urgent Ac ...

Signing Ceremony for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/77259 (2011-151)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that a signing ceremony for the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization which opened for signature on 2 February 2011 will take place on 20 September 2011 at the margins of the sixty-s ...

Ministerial Breakfast Briefing on the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/77261 (2011-153)
To: CBD National Focal Points; ABS Focal Points

In partnership with Japan as the President of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, I am pleased to inform you that the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in collaboration with the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food ...

Request for submissions in preparation for the Second Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/77099 (2011-142)
To: CBD Focal Points, ICNP Focal Points, international organizations, indigenous and local communities and relevant stakeholders

The purpose of this notification is to invite Parties, other Governments, international organizations, indigenous and local communities and relevant stakeholders to submit views and information in preparation for the Second Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nag ...

Request for comments on the draft questionnaires on capacity-building and development for the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/77098 (2011-143)
To: CBD Focal Points and ICNP Focal Points

At the first meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol (Intergovernmental Committee), in recommendation 1/2, paragraph 2, Parties called for “the development of a strategic framework for capacity-building and development under the Nagoya Protocol on the ...

Communiqué: Antigua and Barbuda becomes the first Caribbean island country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization

Antigua and Barbuda becomes the first Caribbean island country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization

Montreal, 1 August 2011 – Antigua and Barbuda has become the forty-first signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing and the first Caribbean island country to signal its intent to ratify.

Spain becomes 40th signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing and the 25th signatory of the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Spain becomes 40th signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing and the 25th signatory of the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Montreal, 25 July 2011 –On 21 July 2011, Spain became the 40th Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ...

Submission of views on cooperative procedures and institutional mechanisms to promote compliance with the Protocol and to address cases of non-compliance

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/76984 (2011-135)
To: CBD Focal Points, ICNP Focal Points, International organizations, indigenous and local communities and relevant stakeholders

The first meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (ICNP-1), in recommendation 1/3, invited Parties, other Governments, international organizations, indigenous and local communities and relevant stakeholders to communicate ...

Uruguay: 39th Signatory to the Nagoya Protocol

Montreal, 20 July 2011 –On 19 July 2011, Uruguay became the 39th Party to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization. Thirty-eight countries and the European Union have now signed the new international treaty.

Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the Occasion of the 13th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food And Agriculture, 18 July 2011 Rome, Italy

13th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (FAO)

16 - 22 July 2011, Rome, Italy

Communiqué: Costa Rica becomes the 38th Signatory of the Nagoya Protocol

Costa Rica becomes the 38th Signatory of the Nagoya Protocol

Montreal, 11 July 2011 – On 6 July 2011, Costa Rica became the 38th Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization. Thirty-seven Governments and the European ...

Press Release: Policy makers and senior officials briefed on the coherent implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Nagoya Protocol

Policy makers and senior officials briefed on the coherent implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Nagoya Protocol

Montreal/Rome, 30 June 2011 – More than 100 policy makers and senior officials attending the thirty seventh session of the FAO Conference in Rome this week were today briefed by the Secretaries of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Convention on ...

Corrections du texte original de la version française du Protocole de Nagoya sur l’accès aux ressources génétiques et le partage des avantages

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/76812 (2011-128)
To: points focaux nationaux CDB et points focaux ABS des pays francophones

Il me fait plaisir de faire circuler les notifications ci-jointes en date du 17 juin 2011 provenant du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies, agissant en sa qualité de dépositaire de la Convention sur la diversité biologique, en ce qui concerne la version française du texte du Protocole de Nagoya ...

Press Release: European Union and 12 Member States sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization

European Union and 12 Member States sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization

Montreal, 23 June 2011 – The number of signatories to a new international treaty on access to and the sharing of benefits from the utilization of genetic resources today jumped to 37 with the signature of the European Union (EU) and 12 of its member states.

Press Release: Governments establish basis for implementation of Nagoya Protocol on Genetic Resources

Governments establish basis for implementation of Nagoya Protocol on Genetic Resources

Montreal, 13 June 2011— The first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization of the Convention on Biological Diversity came to a close in Montreal on Friday, 10 Ju ...

Communiqué: East African Legislative Assembly prepares resolution on Nagoya Protocol

East African Legislative Assembly prepares resolution on Nagoya Protocol

Montreal, 8 June 2011 – Parliamentarians serving in the East African Legislative Assembly are ready to champion the cause of raising awareness amongst legislators to the national parliaments of the five countries that comprise the East African Community (EAC).

Press Release: Collaborating to build Capacity for Two New Treaties on Genetic Resources

Press Release: Governments meet to prepare for the entry into force of the Nagoya treaty on access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources

Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive, on the occasion of the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits arising from their utilization, 6 June 2011, Montreal, Canada

Collaborating to build capacity for two new treaties on genetic resources

Montreal, 6 June 2011. Over the past weekend, on 4 and 5 June, the secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture collaborated to deliver a two-day capacity-building workshop that will help Government ...

Governments meet to prepare for the entry into force of the Nagoya treaty on access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources

Montreal, 6 June 2011 – The first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization began today in Montreal. Over 400 participants will discuss the way forward for the i ...

Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive, on the occasion of the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits arising from their utilization, 6 June 2011, Montreal, Canada

First Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on ABS

6 - 10 June 2011, Montreal, Canada

Recommendation 1/1

Modalities of operation of the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing house

Recommendation 1/2

Measures to assist in capacity-building and development and the strengthening of human resources and institutional capacities in developing countries and Parties with economies in transition

Recommendation 1/3

Measures to raise awareness of the importance of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge and access and benefit-sharing related issues

Recommendation 1/4

Cooperative procedures and institutional mechanisms to promote compliance with the Protocol and to address cases of non-compliance

Preparatory meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on ABS

5 - 6 June 2011, Montreal, Canada

Capacity-building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing

4 - 5 June 2011, Montreal, Canada

Further details regarding the Capacity-building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing, 4-5 June 2011, Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/AS/76242 (2011-103)
To: CBD Focal Points, ICNP Focal Points and indigenous and local community organizations, Cc: ITPGRFA

Reference is made to notification 2011-066 dated 29 March 2011 regarding the Capacity-building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing to be held from 4-5 June 2011 in Montreal, Canada.

Communiqué: Ghana Becomes 24th Country to Sign International Treaty on Genetic Resources

Ghana Becomes 24th Country to Sign International Treaty on Genetic Resources

Montreal, 25 May 2011 – Ghana, on Friday 20 May 2011, became the 24th country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization.

Communique: Mauritania Becomes 23rd Signatory to the Two New Biodiversity Treaties